June 30, 2017
Who doesn't love a book about books? (Possibly Ann.) Listen to our picks for the ultimate reading angle for book-lovers. We'll end with what we're reading this week and some news.
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry (releases August 15)
Ann's picks:
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Books by Isak Dinesen
- The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman
- Voynich Manuscript
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life by Andy Miller
- Andy Miller's blog
- Moby Dick, or, The Whale by Herman Melville
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Halle's picks:
- My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul
- The New York Review of Books
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
- The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
What We're Reading This Week:
June 16, 2017
We’re starting a new series where we’ll play tourist through books! Our first stop is Southeast Asia. As always, we’ll end with what we’re reading this week.
Books and other media mentioned in this episode:
Ann’s picks:
Halle’s picks:
- Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
– Newbery Medal
- In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
– Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Lauren Hillenbrand
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
What We’re Reading This Week:
June 2, 2017
The temperature is rising and we’ve got books to get you in that summertime radness! As always, we’ll end with what we’re reading this week.
Books and other media mentioned in this episode:
Episode 1 – Beach Reads
Ann’s picks:
Halle’s picks:
- On Folly Beach by Karen White
– Karen White books
– The Night the Lights Went Out by Karen White
- Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
– Fargo (TV)
– Legion (TV)
- Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson
– Morgan Matson books
What We’re Reading This Week:
May 19, 2017
We’ve reached our 50 episode milestone! We’ll share some behind the scenes info about the podcast, and give you a preview of what you’ll be reading this summer. The episode finishes with what we’re reading this week.
Books and other media mentioned in this episode:
Ann’s picks:
Halle’s picks:
What We’re Reading This Week:
May 5, 2017
We’re diving into epistolary novels, one of our favorite book formats (and, it turns out, are more than just a book of letters!). As always, we’ll end with what we’re reading this week.
Books and other media mentioned in this episode:
Goodreads
Ann’s picks:
- Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn
- Sorcery & Cecelia, or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
– Patricia C. Wrede books
– Caroline Stevermer books
– Jane Austen books
– Cecelia and Kate series by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
– Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence by Nick Bantock
– Griffin & Sabine series by Nick Bantock
– Morning Star series by Nick Bantock
– The Pharos Gate: Griffin & Sabine’s Lost Correspondence by Nick Bantock
– Nick Bantock books
Halle’s picks:
- Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
– Rainbow Rowell books
- We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
– We Need to Talk About Kevin (film)
- Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
– Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel
– Arrival (film)
– 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
What We’re Reading This Week:
April 21, 2017
This week, we'll visit stories that touch on the experience of war, whether on the front lines or at home. As always, we'll end with what we're reading this week.
Books and other media mentioned in this episode:
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Chaos Walking series by Patrick Ness
Ann's picks:
Halle's picks:
- Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre
- Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
- Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (film)
- Redeployment by Phil Klay
- Serial: Season 2 (podcast)
- The Hurt Locker (film)
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- North and South trilogy by John Jakes
- North and South by John Jakes
- Love and War by John Jakes
- Heaven and Hell by John Jakes
- North and South (TV)
- The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
What We're Reading This Week:
- Ann: The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
- LaRose by Louise Erdrich
- The Round House by Louise Erdrich
- Halle: Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
April 7, 2017
While we 100% believe that everyone should read whatever they want, experience has shown us that lots of guys gravitate toward certain kinds of reads. Listen for our ideas for books for men, and we’ll close with what we’re reading this week.
Books and other media mentioned in this episode:
The New York Times Best Sellers
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Ann’s picks:
Halle’s picks:
- Doc by Mary Doria Russell
– Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell
– Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
– The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
– Tombstone (film)
- The Quiet Game by Greg Iles
– John Grisham books
- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
What We’re Reading This Week:
- Ann: The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
– Inspector Alan Grant series by Josephine Tey
– Josephine Tey books
– Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
– Richard III by William Shakespeare
- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
– Bossypants by Tina Fey
– Yes Please by Amy Poehler
– The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
March 10, 2017
We’ve revisited one of our favorite past episodes with some new “out of our comfort zone” titles. As always, we’ll close with what we’re reading this week.
Books and other media mentioned in this episode:
Episode 18 – Out of Our Comfort Zones
Sarah MacLean books
Eloisa James books
Love By Numbers series by Sarah MacLean
Ann’s picks:
- The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
– Dorothea Benton Frank books
– Debbie Macomber books
– We Never Asked for Wings by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- Wool by Hugh Howey
– The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
– Divergent by Veronica Roth
– Silo series by Hugh Howey
- Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
– Match Me If You Can by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
– Jennifer Crusie books
Halle’s picks:
What We’re Reading This Week:
February 24, 2017
Despite some sound quality issues (sorry!), we’re back from our hiatus and ready to tell you what you’ll be reading this spring! As always, we’ll end with what we’re reading this week.
Books and other media mentioned in this episode:
Ann’s picks:
Halle’s picks:
What We’re Reading This Week:
